ice storm

noun

Definition of ice stormnext
as in snowstorm

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Recent Examples of ice storm Despite the horrid ice storm, Karahan found something that drew him in. — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026 When ice storms disrupted that supplier's deliveries, there was no backup. — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 24 Mar. 2026 During the beginning and tail end of winter, when the temperatures fluctuate more widely day by day, ice storms can hit hard and fast. — Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 15 Mar. 2026 Just south of the area in Michigan where the heavy snow will hit, there’s potential for a significant ice storm, said meteorologist Jeff Masters with Yale Climate Connections. — Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ice storm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ice storm
  1. snowstorm
  2. blizzard
  3. weather
  4. tempest
  5. thunderstorm
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  • Two days before New Year's Eve, in the middle of a snowstorm, someone tried to take the heat away from half a million people in Poland.
    — Julian Durand, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • These are the men and women who spent decades operating buses, maintaining subways, repairing tracks, and kept New York moving through snowstorms, terrorist attacks, and a global pandemic.
    — Marianne Pizzitola, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
Definition of snowstorm
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  • Unlike a hurricane with clearly visible storm surges or a blizzard with piling snow, extreme heat is invisible.
    — Nicole F. Roberts, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • The episode feinted toward genuine rapprochement before yanking the rug out, leaving the Gang pelted with an industrial-grade indoor blizzard and then happily chucking rocks at passing trains, as was Mac and Charlie’s childhood tradition.
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
Definition of blizzard
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  • The 70-room Hotel Keflavík in Iceland's Reykjanesbaer municipality was fully booked with guests hoping to see around one minute and 45 seconds of totality — weather permitting.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Ash would spread much farther across the United States, although its depth would vary with wind and weather.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of weather
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  • Cusk, best known for her trilogy of largely plotless novels, has gotten embroiled in a tabloid tempest involving a Hollywood icon precisely because of her new book's plot.
    — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
  • But the tempest over his future is pushing the rest of the Republican Party to a breaking point.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of tempest
Noun
  • But no reasonable parent mistakes that for true readiness to handle rush-hour traffic in a thunderstorm.
    — David Etue, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • It was instead caused by cold air plummeting to the ground from the upper levels of a passing thunderstorm, experts says.
    — Mark Price July 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
Definition of thunderstorm

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